![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Conway's Band - Le Pere De La Victoire (Father Of Victory) - Conway's Band
Okeh 4384... Recorded in June of 1921. Captain Pat Conway, conductor
Keywords: 78rpm; popular; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 182 |
| Conway's Band - March Religioso (Onward Christian Soldiers) - Conway's Band
Okeh 4384... Recorded in June of 1921. Captain Pat Conway, Conductor
Keywords: 78rpm; popular; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 241 |
| Columbia Band - Colonel Bogey March - Columbia Band
Columbia A2903... Recorded in December of 1919
Keywords: 78rpm; popular; 1910s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 457 |
| Columbia Band - Boston Commandry March - Columbia Band
Columbia A2903... Recorded in January of 1920
Keywords: 78rpm; popular; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 149 |
| Elzie Floyd and Leo Boswell - Nellie Dare - Elzie Floyd and Leo Boswell
Columbia 15150-D... Recorded on March 26, 1927. From North Carolina
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 174 |
| Bud and Joe Billings (Frank Luther and Carson Robison) - Birmingham Jail - Frank Luther and Carson Robison
Victor V-40031... Recorded on December 27, 1928
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 311 |
| Smiths Sacred Singers - The Eastern Gate - Smiths Sacred Singers
Columbia 15110-D... Recorded on November 3, 1926
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 191 |
| Shannon Quartette - Rainbow - Shannon Quartette
Victor 20173... Recorded c.1926
Keywords: 78rpm; popular; vocal quartet; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 154 |
| Lester McFarland and Robert A. Gardner - The East Bound Train - Lester Mcfarland and Robert A. Gardner
Brunswick 169... Recorded in May of 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 177 |
| Arthur Tanner and His Corn Shuckers - The Jealous Lover - Arthur Tanner and His Corn Shuckers
Columbia 15145-D... Recorded on April 1, 1927. An old murder ballad
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 156 |
| Al Craver (Vernon Dalhart) - The Wreck of the Royal Palm Express - Vernon Dalhart
Columbia 15121-D... Recorded on January 14,1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 342 |
| Benny Borg "The Singing Soldier" - I Want a Pardon for Daddy - Benny Borg
Columbia 15148-D... Recorded on April 2,1927. A first-person plea by a child to the warden for the parole of his jailbird father.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; folk; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 269 |
| Rev. Calbert Holstein and Sister Billie Holstein - Garden of My Heart - Rev. Calbert Holstein and Sister Billie Holstein
Brunswick 246... Recorded in February of 1928. Sister Billie flubs a few lines.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 157 |
| Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - We Can't Agree - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Decca 24483B... Recorded on November 24, 1947
Keywords: 78rpm; jazz; rhythm & Blues; popular; 1940s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 492 |
| Smiths Sacred Singers - Shouting At the Hills - Smiths Sacred Singers
Columbia 15110-D... Recorded on November 3, 1926
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; gospel; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 232 |
| "Peg" Moreland - Over the Hills to the Poorhouse - "Peg" Moreland
Victor 21548... Recorded on July 3, 1928. Moreland was from Texas and was called "Peg" due to the fact that he used a wooden leg.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's Record Collection
Downloads: 698 |
| Frank and James McCravy - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? - Frank and James McCravy
Vocalion 5194... Recorded in August of 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 205 |
| Alfred G. Karnes - To the Work - Alfred G. Karnes
Victor 20933... Recorded on July 29, 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 344 |
| Westbrook Conservatory Entertainers - Silent Night - Westbrook Conservatory Entertainers
Paramount 3197... Recorded in October of 1929. A mostly instrumental (with some humming) country version of the Christmas carrol, featuring steel guitar.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; Christmas; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 322 |
| Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald - Cow Cow Boogie - Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
Decca 18587A... Recorded on November 3, 1943. Contains elements later incorporated into the song, Train Kept A' Rollin'.
Keywords: 78rpm; rhythm & blues; jazz; popular; 1940s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 1,371 |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe with The Dependable Boys and Sam Price Trio - The Lord's Gonna' Move This Wicked Race - Rosetta Tharpe, Dependable Boys, Sam Price Trio
Decca 48106B... Recorded on December 2, 1948
Keywords: 78rpm; gospel; rhythm & blues; popular; 1940s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 700 |
| The Chuck Wagon Gang - I'd Rather Have Jesus - The Chuck Wagon Gang
Vocalion 03028... Recorded on November 25, 1936
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 575 |
| Gene Rodemich's Orchestra - When I Think of You - Gene Rodemich Orchestra
Brunswick 2843... Recorded on February 17, 1925
Keywords: 78rpm; jazz; popular; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 203 |
| Benny Borg " The Singing Soldier " - Your'e Going to Leave the Old Home Jim, Tonight - Benny Borg " The Singing Soldier "
Columbia 15148-D... Recorded on April 2, 1927. Not much is known about Benny Borg except he was a singing soldier from Georgia and that he played something called his "double barreled guitar". This song, about a boy leaving home to seek his fortune and his return years later, is musically similar to much later folk songs.
Keywords: country; folk; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 274 |
| Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison - Golden Slippers - Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison
Victor 20539 Recorded on March 9, 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 310 |
| Chris Bouchillon - Talking Blues - Chris Bouchillon
Columbia 15120-D Recorded on November 4, 1926. Bouchillon was, by all accounts, a horrendous singer. To compensate, he invented his own "talking style" of singing and scored some big hits.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; novelty; comedy; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 562 |
| Smith's Sacred Singers - Where We'll Never Grow Old - Smiths Sacred Singers
Columbia 15090-D... Recorded on April 23, 1926
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 444 |
| Bud and Joe Billings ( Frank Luther and Carson Robison ) - Columbus Stockade Blues - Frank Luther and Carson Robison
Victor V-40031... Recorded on December 27, 1928. The Columbus Stockade in Columbus, GA is still used as a short term detention facility.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 375 |
| Frank and James McCravy - Bye and Bye - Frank and James McCravy
Victor 20817... Recorded on July 8, 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 293 |
| "Peg" Moreland - The Prisoner at the Bar - "Peg" Moreland
Victor 21548... Recorded on July 5, 1928. A ballad about a young man facing trial and his fiance who (somehow) manages to get him aquitted through an impassioned speech
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 434 |
| Arthur Tanner and His Corn Shuckers - Knoxville Girl - Arthur Tanner and His Corn Shuckers
Columbia 15145-D... Recorded on April 1, 1927, in Atlanta, a re-record of Tanner's 1925 Paramount record. Arthur Tanner was the brother of Gid Tanner. The Corn Shuckers were actually Columbia records session players, including members of his brother's band, The Skillet Lickers. The song is a rather lurid murder ballad, a confession sung in the first person.
Keywords: country; 1920's; old time; 78rpm; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 582 |
| Chris Bouchillon - Born in Hard Luck - Chris Bouchillon
Columbia 15151-D Recorded on April 5, 1927. Chris Allen Bouchillon was from Greenville, South Carolina. On this and subsequent recordings, guitar is played by his brother Uris.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; novelty; comedy; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 382 |
| Jules Allen "The Singing Cowboy" - Jack O' Diamonds - Jules Allen
Victor 21470... Recorded on April 21, 1928. Jules Verne Allen was a real-life singing cowboy and the first to be billed as such. Jack O' Diamonds is probably better known with modified lyrics as "Rye Whiskey", sung by Tex Ritter.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; western; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 1,184 |
| Vernon Dalhart - The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) - Vernon Dalhart
Columbia 437-D... Recorded on July 30, 1925. Another slightly country version of a popular standard.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; popular; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's Record Collection
Downloads: 698 |
| Riley Puckett - Put My Little Shoes Away - Riley Puckett
Columbia 15125-D... Recorded April 20, 1926. A slow ballad sang in the first person, telling of the last wishes of a dying child.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 315 |
| Carolina Quartette - Saved By His Sweet Grace - Carolina Quartette
Okeh 45175... Recorded on September 27, 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; vocal quartet; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 283 |
| Kalama's Quartette - Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee) - Kalama's Quartette
Okeh 41068... Recorded on May 25, 1928
Keywords: 78rpm; Hawaiian; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 821 |
| Al Craver (Vernon Dalhart) - The Letter Edged in Black - Vernon Dalhart
Columbia 15049-D... Recorded on November 4, 1925. A song about the death of the narrator's mother. Though Columbia credited Carson Robison on the record, he's most likely the arranger of this version.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 451
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Peck's Male Quartette - Eternity - Peck's Male Quartette
Paramount 3189... Recorded in April of 1929
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; vocal quartet; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 190 |
| Frank and James McCravy - Only a Rosebud - Frank and James McCravy
Victor 20817... Recorded on July 8, 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 156 |
| Billy Mitchell - Rubbin' - Billy Mitchell
Blue 108-A... Dirty Blues
Keywords: 78rpm; rhythm & blues; popular; 1940s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 501 |
| Green B. Adair - Lucy Buys Insurance - Green B. Adair
Columbia 15316-D... Recorded on November 9, 1927. Green B. Adair is usually mis-labled as a country act due to the records being released as part of the Columbia 15000 country series. They're actually fairly racist comedy skits in the vein of Amos & Andy or Moran & Mack. Lucy Buys Insurance does have a great punchline though.
Keywords: 78rpm; comedy; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 136 |
| Oscar Ford - Henry Ford's Model A - Oscar Ford
Columbia 15437-D... Recorded on April 11, 1929. Oscar Ford was from Georgia. This is perhaps the first hot rod song ever recorded, beating Frank Hutchison's "Chevrolet six", by a few months. Ford went on to release subsequent car related recordings.
Keywords: 78rpm; old time; country; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 693 |
| Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - Don't Burn the Candle At Both Ends - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Decca 24483A... Recorded on December 18, 1947
Keywords: 78rpm; jazz; rhythm & blues; popular; 1940s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 610 |
| Royal Hawaiians - The Hula Blues - Royal Hawaiians
Brunswick 3620... Recorded in July of 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; popular; Hawaiian; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 634 |
| Westbrook Conservatory Entertainers - Silent Night - Westbrook Conservatory Entertainers
Paramount 3197... Recorded in October of 1929. A mostly instrumental (with some humming) country version of the Christmas carrol.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; christmas; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 295 |
| Vernon Dalhart - The Girl I Left Behind Me - Vernon Dalhart
Columbia 437-D... Recorded July 30, 1925. Dalhart's specialty, a slightly country version of an old standard.
Keywords: 78rpm; country; popular; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 324 |
| Rev. Calbert Holstein and Sister Billie Holstein - Zion's Hill - Rev. Calbert Holstein and Sister Billie Holstein
Brunswick 246... Recorded in February of 1928. All anyone seems to know about the Holsteins are that they were street singers. It starts with a brief Bible quotation by Rev. Holstein, then a piano player with lead fingers starts playing. The song ends oddly, with Rev. Holstein shouting "That's all!", over the piano's final note.
Keywords: 78rpm; old time; country; gospel; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 209 |
| Old Southern Sacred Singers - What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Old Southern Sacred Singers
Brunswick 172 Recorded in May of 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; gospel; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 510 |
| Lester McFarland and Robert A. Gardner - Whispering Hope - Lester McFarland and Robert A. Gardner
Vocalion 5192... Recorded in September of 1927
Keywords: 78rpm; country; old time; 1920s; Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
Downloads: 232 |
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